State conservative leaders gathered in Omaha Saturday for a tea party rally.Hundreds attended the event in Walnut Grove Park.Former State Treasurer Shane Osborn was among several keynote speakers. Osborn has already assembled a campaign staff for a U.S. Senate run. While he has not officially announced, Osborn drew a lot of attention at the rally and echoed a common theme among attendees.“This country has spent too much money for too long,” Osborn said. “We’ve taken on too much debt and we are going to leave our kids and grandkids, for the first time in America’s history, in a place that is worse than it is now if we don’t get the financial train back on the tracks.”RELATED: Ex-Neb. treasurer Osborn files for U.S. SenateNebraska Democrats also gathered Saturday at their annual Morrison Exon Dinner. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday in LaVista. The event honors party volunteers, officers and politicians.

OMAHA, Neb. —

State conservative leaders gathered in Omaha Saturday for a tea party rally.

Hundreds attended the event in Walnut Grove Park.

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Former State Treasurer Shane Osborn was among several keynote speakers. Osborn has already assembled a campaign staff for a U.S. Senate run. While he has not officially announced, Osborn drew a lot of attention at the rally and echoed a common theme among attendees.

“This country has spent too much money for too long,” Osborn said. “We’ve taken on too much debt and we are going to leave our kids and grandkids, for the first time in America’s history, in a place that is worse than it is now if we don’t get the financial train back on the tracks.”